Best Motivational Speech Ever: Secrets to Success, How Bad Do you Want it [Full Speech]
so if you want to make six figures you
can’t just be talking about you want to
make six figures you hear what I’m
saying you tonight if you do the three
things I tell you to do tonight I
guarantee whatever it is you want to do
in life you’ll be able to do you will be
able to accomplish whatever you want to
academically financially relationally
whatever so three things all right I’m
gonna take this story I got to get out
of here and the stories about you guys
have probably heard about this before it
was a young man who you know he wanted
to make a lot of money and so he went to
this guru right he told the Guru you
know I want to be on the same level you
are and so the Guru said if you want to
be on the same level I’m all I’ll meet
you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 a.m.
he liked the beach I said I’m gonna make
money I don’t want to swim who said if
you want to make money I’ll meet you
tomorrow 4:00 a.m. so the young man got
there I am here already to rock the room
got on the suit
shitty wore shorts the old man grabs his
hand said I’m bad you want this except
he said we’re back he said one thrown
out in the water so he walks out into
the woman watch this when he walks onto
the water it goes way steep so you like
this guy crazy like I make money he got
guy in swimming and it has to be a
lifeguard I want to make money he got it
so he said come on a little further
1,000 foot then he had it right around
in this area just don’t get Airy so this
old man crazy he’s making money but he
crazy said come on out a little further
can I look further it was right at his
mouth my man like I’m bout to go back in
here this guide is mine but all men’s I
thought you said you wanted to be
successful he said I do he said walk a
little further he can’t drop his head
and held him down hold him down
my man getting scratch it hold him down
I got you I know you brushed it out but
I got you yeah the hell down I need you
for illustration he had him held down
just before my man was about to pass out
he raised him up he said I got a
question for you if somebody asked
he said when you were underwater and
what do you want to do Lee I’m looking
for a different work thought it was
there were said I wanted to breathe
he told the guy he said when you want to
succeed as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful I know how
many young guys man here today but if
you ever had an asthma attack before he
sure to breath and so beat
shortness of breath you wheeze it the
only thing you trying to do is get some
air you okay – get ball game he’ll get
what’s on TV
you don’t care about nobody calling you
you don’t care about a party the only
thing you care about when you’re trying
to breathe is to get some fresh air
that’s it
and when you get to the point where all
you want to do is be successful as bad
as you want to breathe then you’ll be
successful and I’m here to tell you
number one that most of you say you want
to be successful but you don’t want it
bad you just kind of want it you don’t
want it badder than you want a party you
don’t want it as much as you want to be
cool you most of you don’t want success
as much as you want to sleep
somebody loves sleep love success and
I’m here to tell you today if you’re
going to be successful you’ve gotta be
willing to give up sleep
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to be successful something you have to
say every day in the world
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go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity to be successful that’s how
bad you gotta work you gotta go daddy’s
not listen to me you gotta want to be
successful so bad that you forget to eat
I said I got an opportunity to make a
dream become a reality
football players how many football
players not anybody like football in
here raise your hand here I like
football
Emmitt Smith I used to be a cowboy fan
before they did my boy Tom Landry wrong
I used to be a cowboy fan and watch this
there was a commercial Emmitt Smith had
won his first Super Bowl
he had this commercial he was lifting
weights I love you saw the commercial he
was lifting and he said he said Emma
said you know what I won the Super Bowl
so I can rest not here doing this bench
press play he said I want a super rockin
rest night so he throws all about 325
boom and he grants for about two seconds
boom just see that he’d already wanted
to party so I think I’m gonna take a
rest and he went spy how long one second
most of you won’t be successful because
when you’re studying and you get tired
you quit I’m here to tell you today if
you got it somebody came to my office
the other day crying
I said look don’t cry to give up cry to
keep going don’t cry to quit you already
in pain you already hurt get a reward
from me don’t go to sleep until you
succeed listen to me I’m here to tell
you today that you can come here you can
jump up you can do flips you can be
excited when we give away money but
listen to me you’ll never be successful
and I’ll have to give you a dime to do
what you do you won’t be successful
until you say I need that money cuz I
gotta be here but listen to me Emmitt
Smith said this at the end of the
commercial Emmitt Smith said all men are
created equal some work harder in
pre-season imma send again because you
might’ve missed me all men are created
equal
some work harder and preseason so that
means that there are some people who are
going to see the professor going to see
the TA and even when the professor says
I don’t meet with you my ta meet with
you you say I want to talk to your TA
I don’t pay the TA I pay you to teach me
so you have to find some time to meet me
if I gotta meet you at the mall if I got
to meet you at your house you are going
to see me listen to me all men are
created equal some work harder preseason
with the college guys were way smarter
than me 4.0 3.0 they went to the high
you league high schools can you’re
awkward from these great high school
most of them are not doing what I’m
doing why cuz it’s not about where you
come from it’s about heart you come to a
place where either being smart enough
you gotta have heart that’s number one
wife number two number two test number
two I wrote it down I want to make sure
you got it it says to beat watch this
busters we’re talking about sacrifice
now the important thing is this right
why I said it I only have about three
more minutes listen to me
the most important thing is this
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we call
that’s the number two thing you gotta
catch that one to be able to listen to
me at any moment some of you you can
make sacrifices when Monday Night
Football that on you can make a
sacrifice but when the game come on for
some reason you just attached to it
your favorite
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but your cell phone is more important
even your success I’m gonna say it again
I’m gonna hurt somebody I’m gonna hurt
somebody some of you need to give up
your cell phone because the time you
spend on your cell phone could be used
for your success the time you could be
using to be successful you’re using on
the cell and the cell phone is not
bringing you nothing but a bill and
somebody has told you you couldn’t live
without it
I’m sorry going deep not giving up stuff
watch what it says she’ll be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for
where we can be I don’t do well man man
you’re right they never studied I’m not
good and right cuz you have never
written before
but I dare you to fail the writing for a
whole year to see if you get to the end
I need you to fail
I dare you take that same class open on
guys I gave you stop dropping classes
like you saw always want to give up I’m
dropping why you drop it I’m so grateful
that the swage didn’t drop and quit say
I just don’t stop I’m a slave I’m just
gonna be a slave
imma quit listen to me the slave said we
will live because one day we will become
slaves so today on the relays we don’t
act like we free one day our children
will be free
it displays what it just say we quit we
give up we would have died in the Middle
Passage but some slave said I don’t care
what we go through lose those survivors
400 years of slavery we’re gonna get
through this and you can’t get through
1825 you can’t get through a writing
class and you got to after tuna resource
after resource the problem is you ain’t
never felt no pain before your song it’s
a song generation you quit on everything
our people did not quit Harriet Tubman
not only made it she went back and got
some more
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she said you know what I made it but I’m
gonna walk all listen to me Shh not like
the boss i’ma walk all the way back down
to the south to get some more and you
quitting on 1825 now watch this you’ll
quit after you listen to me you get a
sleeping bag and you wait for meeeeee
you wait for the first W is instructed
to come in and come out just bad I need
help
you could actually do that
you quit after you had mr. Toomy us a
WRA
party
I’m never the boy everybody the moment I
got fooled at dick and let him get over
there let it be all the best riders I am
a job I won’t have a riding Park
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I’m serious you quit then you ain’t even
tried yet last one I’m sorry last one
listen to me
pain is temporary it may last for a
minute
or an hour or a day or even a year
but eventually it will subside and
something else will take its place
and like when however they will last
well
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telling you as I’m Levi was heartless
the Tour de happiness and the problem of
the
boy gah spoil some of y’all sports
bottom line your pants have done
everything for you they never had to be
nut by yourself your spoiler will keep
it really nice some of you are spoiled
brats every time you ever got in trouble
somebody you’re out got you out of it
every time you done some you not
supposed to do people say your mother’s
a tyrant you right she kicked me out
you’re right see me but she developed a
man because she me up and said
you won’t have to grow up and some of
you have never won
so every time something aren’t you quit
we call mama i daddy the tickle of pain
I get you not to go home
so my said I kind of go home I feel bad
dog throw it you ain’t gonna die at the
end they’re painting success you’re not
gonna die because you kill the look I’m
not eating like I eat at home that’s why
you bout to go to your next level
because you can eat like you ate at home
you’ll keep being a boy or a girl it’s
time to become a woman so don’t don’t
worry about a little pain my greatest
asset is I was homeless so I can’t feel
a whole lot of thing
I’ve already been alone there’s not a
whole lot
it’s like not a whole lot of hurt I can
feel on a little paper on a little test
so I leave you I leave you listen to me
we have gotten to a point where it’s
midterms and we move it forward the days
of you getting money I’m not saying we
quit but I’m saying a day has got to go
from external to internal you have to
give it everything you’ve got no more TV
no more parties no more plans if you
have a 4.0 what you need to be doing to
study get off the phone
sorry I’m not available into the end of
this year
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not forever you reached the right number
but you called me at the wrong time call
me back January first I’m about to get
busy night huh I want you to have a
countdown of your own and say when the
countdown is over where the real watch
me is when I was homeless I was wrong I
knew that was the best thing in what day
I said what a real ear Thomas
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you like you ain’t got nut and get your
GED stop being afraid to take a test
stop being afraid to throw the cops cuz
your daddy then go and your mama didn’t
go stop being afraid that be the best
teletype machine to be but listen to
miss quad it took me 12 years get a
degree I got it
guess what on a degree they don’t have
dates so if it took you four it took me
20 don’t show up nowhere exactly
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absolutely they will never be successful
once you get there I guarantee you the
world is yours so work hard and you can
have whatever it is you want thank you
guys for your time
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